February 22nd at 16:30

Westminster Cathedral Hall, Ambrosden Avenue, London, SW1P 1QW

Aleksandra Świgut, pianist, soloist, and chamber musician, holds a doctorate in musical arts, and is a teacher at the Fryderyk Chopin University of Music in Warsaw. Critics consider her one of the most distinctive personalities on the classical music scene. Winner of the 17th International Edvard Grieg Piano Competition in Bergen and special awards: the audience and orchestra prizes, and the prestigious Steinway Prizewinners Concert Network award.

As a proponent of period piano performance, she won second prize at the International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw. She was a semi-finalist in the International Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv, a participant in the 18th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2021), and a laureate of numerous international youth piano competitions (including those in Ettlingen, New Orleans, and Enschede).

Aleksandra Świgut will play:

• Chopin – Ballade No. 1 in G minor, op. 23
• Michałowski – Preludium in B flat minor, op. 9
• Chopin – Scherzo in C# minor, op. 39
• Grieg – Lyric Pieces: Arietta op. 12 nr 1, The Poets Heart, op. 5 nr 2,  Little Bird op. 43 nr 4
• Grieg – Moods: Hommage à Chopin, op. 73 nr 5
• Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King
• Karmanov – “Past Perfect”
• Mikuli – Reverie, op. 9 nr 6
• Chopin – Ballade No.3 in A flat major, op. 47
• Chopin – Ballade No.4 in F minor, op. 52
• Różycki – Walz from the opera “Casanova”

Tickets and further information HERE.

This concert is sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute.